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Ehh.. not sure about this one. First series was okay, it had great music and animation from Bones but the romance was way too forced and sappy. Doesn't look like there's going to be a strong romance angle in this series but you never know. I'll watch it only if it's not 50 episodes like the first series.

Some positives:
No Renton or Eureka (best news)
The announcement made a point of focusing on the mecha aspect, not the romance
Bones' great animation

Some negatives:
Looks like none of the Gekko crew is going to be here as it is a sequel and it doesn't look like just a couple years time skip.

Mysteries:
Naoki Sato coming back to make the music? Hope so.
Total episodes?
New director?
Dai Sato?

I liked Renton & Eureka. Though it was one of the more interesting romantic lead pairings in the last few years.

For me they just didn't click. Renton was just really grating and annoying for most of the series and only the last few episodes he really matures, i can understand "Oh, but he's just a teenager" but come on 40+ episodes later and he's still immature. If it was a two-cour series, i can be more forgiving but dealing with him for 50 episodes was just..exhausting to say the least. I like Eureka even if she has the personality of Yuki Nagato, but as a couple i just don't like it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo's blog post on the announcement

the TV was certainly flawed, but at its best it was superb.

I definitely agree here: The overall series was flawed, but the best parts were memorable towards the end of the series and i really liked the first part of the series when everyone calls it the weakest part.

This might be interesting. The setting after E7 was really open-ended. You could easily tell another story from it. If the boy really is Renton and Eureka's son, you can also expect some discrimination..

The "Jelly Boy" will be discriminated, hahahaha. Jelly Boy....!

Seriously, I'm glad they had an offspring. By the way, who's the girl behind him (kinda a little older)?

For me they just didn't click. Renton was just really grating and annoying for most of the series and only the last few episodes he really matures, i can understand "Oh, but he's just a teenager" but come on 40+ episodes later and he's still immature. If it was a two-cour series, i can be more forgiving but dealing with him for 50 episodes was just..exhausting to say the least. I like Eureka even if she has the personality of Yuki Nagato, but as a couple i just don't like it.

I disagree. Perhaps at first they didn't click, but I think as the show continued on, Renton's persistence in trying to show affection to Eureka worked out. It was VERY refreshing for her to see how much Renton meant to her when he temp left the ship, even though she was unaware, and how they consummated their relationship at the halfway point of the series. It was very unusual to see how their bond deepened instead of leaving you high and dry until the end like the romance in so many other mecha shows. It's the little things that count =03.

The design of the boy makes sense, when it makes sense, its not lazy. Straight away we can see that the character is related to Renton and Eureka, if that's what they want us to know, then the character has been designed well.